The New York Times just posted a horrifying video of a white North Charleston police officer named Michael T. Slager tussling with a black man named Walter Scott—then shooting him eight times in the back as he fled, then planting what appears to be a Taser by his prone body (to support the false statement he would report on his police radio soon afterwards, a blatant and egregious lie nullified by this video). From the Times:
The officer, Michael T. Slager, had said he feared for his life because the man took his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday. A video, however, shows the officer firing eight times as the man fled. The state charges were announced in a news conference Tuesday evening.
Slager also, according to the North Charleston Post and Courier, said that he shot because he “felt threatened.”